Jape

"We don’t want to criminalise a group of students, but at the same time we don’t want to treat the problem as some kind of jape, either." ❋ Unknown (2006)

Even Ponting describes the quiet as "appalling" on one of his intertitles, which otherwise often have a jolly-jape feel. ❋ Pascal Wyse (2010)

The Huffington Post noted the references as well as more "jokes" in the same vein (including a video of Cooper's jape, over which David Gergen cluelessly chortles). ❋ Unknown (2009)

That eye wanted to cross, to discredit Perkus Tooth's whole sober aura with a comic jape. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"I remember when I was a young boy, 1 April fell on a Saturday, so the Football League decided to create a 'hilarious' jape by sending referees and linesmen with thematically linked names to the same game," recalls Robin Tucker. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Such little verses always made the best sort of jape. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A little jape on himself, and one that would certainly deliver more concrete rewards than his loftier verse. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Chef Nikki Billington and her partner Paul Watson had always made running a restaurant feel less like a business venture and more like a jolly jape. ❋ Unknown (2010)

That Cave could even place highly in this kind of frivolous mass-market jape, let alone win, is a sign of just how things have changed over the course of his 30-year career. ❋ Unknown (2010)

After serving 12 years in the position, Motley, the official White House Jester, was beheaded Tuesday after delivering a poorly received jape about the spiraling national debt before President and Mrs. Obama. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Cambridge Union Society's pole-dancing jape is just plain daft. ❋ Unknown (2010)

One knows only too well that it is a juvenile jolly jape, but some wicked and web-wily wrecker has totally trashed the website of the Chief Lemon Sucker, humourless harpy harridan Harriet Harperson. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But in the next few days I had other things to distract me from Elspeth's nonsense; my jape in the pool-room with the little greenhorn came home to roost, and in the most unexpected way. ❋ Geoff Barbanell (2010)

People would halt the progress of whatever parley they were engaged in and turn to stop him in aisles and antechambers, demanding an instant jape or trick from him. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Everyone said the child was doomed to kill himself doing some foolish jape, and then he did. ❋ Orson Scott Card (2010)

So some bright spark at liebour HQ said '' I know what to do, lets have a tsumami of third worlders in the country, because they will be a block liebour vote and to hell with social cohesion and social infrastructure, hospitals, schools, public transport, what a jolly jape, eh? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Cameron and Hague may yet be forced to reconsider the schoolboy jape that has turned into this distasteful alliance. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Waterboarding is a frat boy jape - it is not torture. ❋ Unknown (2009)

For one moment, it seems as though he is back at Brentwood School, asking for a copy on Mein Kampf for speech day, and thinking all this - all this hate, and all this hard work to rehabilitate the worst genocidical killer of the twentieth century - is only a jolly, jolly jape. ❋ Unknown (2009)